Not all kits are created equal, if your kit is White-Green-Blue then you need to keep an eye on quality level as well as material type. High quality and imperfect materials are what you need to craft most items. So if you are wearing an item and the kit has a better QL then it will make the item better. Here is a list of the tool kits.

1. Consumables, these make your energy drinks, or health potions and these can be bought from vendors.

2. Gadgets, you can craft stimulants from this kit.

3. Glyph, make the most of your items by making glyphs.

4. Talisman, use this kit to craft items that you wear.

5. Weapons, use this crafting kit to make weapons.

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Crafting Better Materials.

Mixing up any Five materials after pressing Y to open the crafting window and pressing assemble will upgrade the quality, no need to unstack.

Every time you kill an enemy in tsw they drop stuff, this is where you will get your crafting materials from, the higher the level of the enemy destroyed the better stuff they drop. Materials are graded as follows. Pure (the best), Sacred, Normal, Imperfect and Base (the worst).

Most of the materials you pick up are lower quality materials and this is a tad frustrating but when you do find some quality stuff it is quite a buzz.. Sometimes you can make high quality from 5 low quality materials, just place the 5 onto the crafting grid and push assemble.

Materials can also have an affect on your characters traits, for example.

Water based items can affect health and give it a boost making it ideal for tank builds.

Metal is used for making your weapons.

Fire is for dps builds and has an affect on attack.

Dust increases healing and is perfect for healing builds.

Crafting Runes.

You can also make Runes and these increase abilities, for example.

Trinity runes give a higher penetration for the dps player.

Earth runes will beef up your block ratings.

Koru runes are good for physical protection.

Wedjat runes give an extra boost to your defense.

Lu runes increase critical power and are good for high dps builds.

Pentagram runes are the best and give you extra magical protection.

Hope that helps you get to grips with the TSW crafting system, give it a try it is not as hard as it looks.